The reference in the title is from the 1980 film “Airplane.” If you recognized it, I’m sorry to inform you that you’re getting old (like me). Let’s talk about vector databases. A vector database is a type of database that stores and organizes data in t Continue...

Legacy IT operations management (ITOM) solutions tend to ignore the importance of a real-time IT infrastructure model that spans cloud services all the way down to a chassis fan. On the other hand, one of Zenoss’ key tenets is model-based monitoring, w Continue...

The job of IT operations (IT Ops) has always included many an underappreciated responsibility, but perhaps none as thankless as “on call.” The need, it seems, is obvious. After all, we live in a 24-hour-a-day economy, and someone has to keep an eye on Continue...

Taking a step back from the world of monitoring, virtualization and cloud can be rather humbling at times. When you think about it in very elementary terms, everything that we do on a daily basis is reduced into bits, stored somewhere, sent other place Continue...